New Monkey GENUS Discovered in Africa

A new monkey species genus related to the baboon has been found in the highland forests of Tanzania.

Lophocebus kipunji, the Highland Mangabey is one of three recently discovered and threatened species found in the Ndundulu Forest.
The monkey was discovered almost simultaneously by two research teams on separate mountain ranges and is the first new African monkey to be found in more than 20 years. It also instantly becomes one of the rarest and most critically endangered primates on Earth.

Positive Change via Positive NewsThis site brings together just a few of the thousands of new species discovered since the year 2000.
Hopefully, it will inspire us to see the world as a place still being explored, and give us the courage to conserve and protect the fragile, shrinking areas of habitat left on Earth...
areas which, as we see here, contain creatures we haven't even yet Imagined...